Lyrics as Literature - Keep on Pushin Objectives

Students will be able to:

understand the emotional impact of popular music associated with the civil rights movement;
identify connections between particular songs and historical events, attitudes and/or figures;
recognize multiple points of view toward the issue of race relations in America both historically and in contemporary society;
evaluate selected songs as effective tools for social protest and as an historical documents
describe the role music played in the civil rights movement of the 1960s;